Writing Grants

Arts councils, private foundations, literary organizations, and journalism nonprofits. Grants on this page range from small project stipends to five-figure awards funding a year of work on a book or reporting project.

Usually not. Most grants fund work in progress — applications typically ask for a project description, a writing sample, and sometimes a budget. Fellowships and book prizes are the categories that more often want completed work.

The large majority are free. A small number charge a modest administrative fee, which is shown on the listing when it exists.

Opportunities are aggregated daily from publishers' and organizations' own submission pages and portals, plus curated editorial sources. Filters remove explicitly unpaid calls and automatically reject contests whose entry fee outweighs any stated prize, and our curators investigate listings readers report. We can't verify every organization, so confirm the details on the organizer's own page before you apply or pay an entry fee.

Browsing titles, deadlines, award amounts, and entry fees is free. The hosting organization and direct submission link are unlocked with a paid CozyJobs membership — that curation is what the subscription funds. Plans start at $25/month; see cozyjobs.com/pricing.

Continuously. New opportunities are ingested throughout the day, deadlines are monitored, and listings are removed automatically when their submission window closes.